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LOT 0896
Roman Light Green Glass Flask
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
6 1/4 in. (68 grams, 16 cm).
Comprising a piriform body with dimple base, tapering tubular neck with pinched and everted rim.
Provenance
From an important collection of glass, London, UK, 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 236, for type.
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